Word: greeting
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...courtyard of Yasser Arafat's battered Ramallah compound, a few hundred Palestinians newly released from Israel's jails gathered last Thursday lunchtime with their families. The Palestinian leader emerged smiling from a meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to greet the crowds. Arafat puckered his lips and blew kisses, no doubt expecting the kind of drawn-out session of mass adulation he relishes. But the prisoners knew whom to thank for their freedom. "Long live Hizballah!" they chanted. "Long live Hassan Nasrallah!" The name of the Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips...
...government blamed Kashmir militants once supported by Musharraf, now aggrieved by his neglect. Eleven days later the SAARC meeting began in Islamabad, and the initial signals were tentative at best. When Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee arrived, his Pakistani counterpart, Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, tried to greet him with a hug. Vajpayee smiled cordially but took a step back. When Vajpayee departed three days later, the hug between the two men was warm and reciprocal...
...Iraqis have deep grievances against the U.S. [Dec. 8]. Bush's policies have turned Iraqis, Muslims and others who were once only moderately opposed to the U.S. into an ever growing pool of dedicated enemies. It is hard to imagine that groups promising eternal glory to suicide bombers would greet U.S. troops as saviors, but evidently many of the Administration's policymakers believed this is what would happen in Iraq. STEVE ZOLOTOW Las Vegas...
much shorter distances from Albania to southeast Italy or from Morocco to Spain. But the would-be immigrants choose it because it offers the steadiest flow of outgoing boats. As the Somalis approach the edge of Kufra, a swarm of Libyans comes to greet them. "Tripoli! Tripoli! Benghazi!" the local men bark. "Where do you want to go? We have food. Do you want a place to stay?" Abdi Salan has little choice, agreeing to spend $150 for a hot meal, two nights' lodging and a jeep ride north to Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city. The Kufra smugglers convince...
...following also applauded its own in addition to goading the Crimson. To greet freshman goaltender David McKee, who hails from Irving, Texas, at the beginning of the second period, Cornell fans burst into song as the band led “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” Schafer also garnered encouragement as Lynah screamed “Kill, Schafer, kill” when the coach argued with the refs after Harvard was caught with six men on the ice in the second. The chant is a leftover from Schafer’s days as a Cornell defenseman...